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Designers are reissuing iconic furniture pieces to suit modern tastes

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Jemima Sissons

June 20, 2013 6:28 p.m. ET

"They are everything that designers would like to do now but can't," says filmmaker Amanda Eliasch about her prized Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen and Kartell reissues that she keeps in her homes in London and Los Angeles. "What do you do following on from these amazing pieces of furniture?"

Some of the most iconic Modernist and midcentury modern designs, such as Corbusier's LC2 chair, Arne Jacobsen's Egg chair and the Eames Aluminum Group, have been so popular they never went out of production. But...